CHINESE VERMILION MAKERS HOLD SECRET OF AGES.
The manufacture of vermilion, which is one of the foremost industries of Hongkong, and eutirelj in the hands of the Chinese, is very ancient. They made artificial cinnabar (a form of mercury, the base of vermilion); long before Europe was civilised and some of the granite stones between which the pulverised ore is ground are almost prehistoric. Even : in the present day there are trade secrets in the industry which no European has been able to fathom. There are over one hundred of these manufacturing plants in Hoogkong and Kowloon.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 23, Issue 7, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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97CHINESE VERMILION MAKERS HOLD SECRET OF AGES. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 23, Issue 7, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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